On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Dave J Thorn wrote:

> 
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> On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Mike Clark wrote:
> 
> PS I have sendmail in my rc.local script (I think - the recommended place 
> to put it) and when the machine can't find it's network, the whole 
> shebang stops there unless I do a ctrl-C to stop sendmail running. The 
> message is something like : Can't resolve my qualified host name, 
> sleeping for retry
You can fix this by telling sendmail your domain name in /etc/sendmail.cf 
with the line
Dhostname.domain

Where hostname.domain is your fully qualified domain name. This is useful for
dialup configurations where DNS resolution is not always available.

Mike